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If we want our kids to have happy, productive, moral lives, we must allow more time for play, not less. ~Peter Gray, professor in psychology Thank you all for joining in my fun with this caption game and leaving your ideas for a caption for Wednesday’s photo. It’s fun to do a little playing and using our imaginations even after …
Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one. ~Dr. Seuss It’s blackberry season out here on the farm. I’ve been over in the field fighting the briars, the weeds, and the bugs for some wild blackberries. Made a pie and some blackberry jam. Now I’m picking the tame thornless blackberries we have out by the garden. They’ve gotten …
Mastiffs are docile, dignified and patient, lovable companions. Dogs known as mastiffs have been known around the world for thousands of years. Surviving evidence from ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, China, and Tibet all bear traces of ferocious giant canines classified as mastiffs. (The American Kennel Club) I love dogs. I like big dogs too, but I’ve never wanted a huge …
Sometimes you just need to take a few hours out of your busy life to meet a real lady. That’s what I did this week and what a blessing that was. A few months ago, a friend told me she knew a woman who was a little girl in the mountains when the packhorse librarians were riding out on the …
When I was a kid, I loved to have a book to read. I was blessed with a mother who took me to the library where shelves and shelves of books beckoned me into new worlds. The summer was time to read. If there wasn’t anything to do on the farm which was often the case in July after the …
I’ve written a lot of books and seen many of them published and sent out into the world of readers. Each new story has a way of sort of pushing the last story a little to the side and the story ten books ago toward the second shelf of memory. I did a Zoom meeting with a fun book club …
Happy Birthday, America! “God Bless America, my home, sweet home.”~Irving Berlin I hope you are having a great 4th of July weekend of celebration. Fireworks will be exploding in the sky. My dog, Frankie, will be hiding in the basement. Kids everywhere will be going oohh and aahh. Well, except some of the very young ones who might be hiding …
“Luck is believing you’re lucky.” ~Tennessee Williams Luck of the draw describes something that is out of your control and where you have no choice in what is happening or has happened. The family you are born into might be called a luck of the draw. According to what I saw online, the “luck of the draw” is a relatively new …
Do you have a locket you like to wear? Perhaps because it’s pretty. Perhaps because it holds the picture of a loved one. Maybe a grandchild or a sweetheart. I remember loving the idea of having a locket when I was a young girl. The idea of secreting a photo inside it and then wearing it close to my heart …
Do you see some of your favorite inspirational historical fiction writers in the picture above? Five of us got together on Book Talk with Cara Putnam to talk about our books and why we like to go back in time to write those stories. Each of us has a new release and if you go over to Cara’s website here, …